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The Anthropological Museum of Petralona is thirty-five kilometres from Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia, Greece. It displays finds from the nearby Petralona cave, in which the oldest European hominid skull was found. There are also murals by the folk painter Christos Kagaras illustrating the emergence of life on Earth and Archanthropus teaching his children how to make tools of stone and bone, the evolution of life according to Aristotle, and the evolution of human life over the last 11 million years according to Poulianos.

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  • Anthropological Museum of Petralona (en)
  • Антропологический музей (Петралона) (ru)
  • Антропологічний музей (Петралона) (uk)
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  • Антропологічний Музей (Петралона) — знаходиться в 35 км від міста Фессалоніки, Центральна Македонія, Греція і в 2 км від села Петралона. (uk)
  • Антропологический Музей (Петралона) — находится в 35 километрах от города Фессалоники, Центральная Македония, Греция и в 2 км от села Петралона. (ru)
  • The Anthropological Museum of Petralona is thirty-five kilometres from Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia, Greece. It displays finds from the nearby Petralona cave, in which the oldest European hominid skull was found. There are also murals by the folk painter Christos Kagaras illustrating the emergence of life on Earth and Archanthropus teaching his children how to make tools of stone and bone, the evolution of life according to Aristotle, and the evolution of human life over the last 11 million years according to Poulianos. (en)
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  • Anthropological Museum of Petralona (en)
  • Ανθρωπολογικό Μουσείο Πετραλώνων (en)
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  • Anthropological Museum of Petralona (en)
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  • View from outside (en)
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  • Aris Poulianos, founder of Anthropological Society of Greece (en)
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  • Location of the museum (en)
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  • Ανθρωπολογικό Μουσείο Πετραλώνων (en)
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  • Modern Greek (en)
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  • Anthropological Museum (en)
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  • The Anthropological Museum of Petralona is thirty-five kilometres from Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia, Greece. It displays finds from the nearby Petralona cave, in which the oldest European hominid skull was found. The village of Petralona, Chalkidiki is on the old Thessaloniki–Nea Moudania national highway. The cave and the anthropological museum are a further 2 km beyond the village. The museum was built and financed in 1978 by the (AEE), which owns it. It opened in 1979. The purpose of the museum is to showcase the finds from the Petralona cave, the prehistoric culture of Greece, and finds representing the entire palaeoanthropological area of Greece. The finds include replicas of the mausoleum of , the oldest traces of fire ever found (from the 24th geological stratum in the Petralona cave, which is more than one million years old), the earliest stone and bone tools, which were found at Nea Triglia in Chalkidiki (11 million years old), and finds from open spaces before the cave-dwelling era in Nea Triglia, the island of Euboea, , the Aegean, other parts of Greece, and Africa. There are also murals by the folk painter Christos Kagaras illustrating the emergence of life on Earth and Archanthropus teaching his children how to make tools of stone and bone, the evolution of life according to Aristotle, and the evolution of human life over the last 11 million years according to Poulianos. The museum has a conference room, geological and palaeoanthropological conservation workshops, and a library. (en)
  • Антропологічний Музей (Петралона) — знаходиться в 35 км від міста Фессалоніки, Центральна Македонія, Греція і в 2 км від села Петралона. (uk)
  • Антропологический Музей (Петралона) — находится в 35 километрах от города Фессалоники, Центральная Македония, Греция и в 2 км от села Петралона. (ru)
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  • Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology & Speleology - Northern Greece (en)
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